Symbolic Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology [Paperback]

...provides a comprehensive overview of symbolic interaction's intellectual origins, its early development either as the Chicago School or the Iowa School, and its relationship to kindred theoretical camps, such as dramaturgy and ethnomethodology....Recommended.To find more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory.Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Intellectual Antecedents of Symbolic Interactionism Chapter 3 Intellectual Antecedents Part 4 Varieties of Symbolic Interactionism and Leading Early Representatives Chapter 5 The Early Interactionists: Cooley and Thomas Chapter 6 Mead's Social Psychology Chapter 7 Theoretical and Ideological Variations in Contemporary Interactionism Chapter 8 Herbert Blumer: Sociologist Par Excellence Chapter 9 Kuhn's Formulation of the Self Chapter 10 Erving Goffman Chapter 11 Harold Garfinkel: The Founder of Ethnomethodology Part 12 Methodological Stances Chapter 13 Interactionist Research Methods: An Overview Chapter 14 Sociological Analysis and the Variable Chapter 15 Beyond Blumer and Kuhn: Researching and Studying Across-time Data Through the Use of Point-in-space Laboratory Procedures Chapter 16 Walking a Tightrope: Dilemmas of Participant Observation of Groups in Conflict Part 17 Minded Behavior Chapter 18 Mind, Experience, and Behavior Chapter 19 The Regulation of the Wishes Chapter 20 Rapists' Vocabulary of Motives Chapter 21 Emergence and Human Conduct Chapter 22 Baseball Magic Part 23 The Self Chapter 24 The Looking-Glass Self Chapter 25 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Chapter 26 Generic Processes of Impression Management: Two Case Studies of Physical and Mental Disability Chapter 27 Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay Evangelical Chapter 28 The Problem of Identity Construction Among the Homeless Part 29 Social Structure Chapter 30 Society as SymboliclS6